Photograph
byGeorge
Shiras,
3d
FLOCK OF BLUE GEESE LEAVING THEIR FEEDING GROUND ON THE RAINEYREFUGE,
LOUISIANA
Usually about one in eight or ten birds in these flocks is a lesser snow goose, some of which appear in this picture.
During
thesummer
of1929
thenesting
place of the blue geese was definitely located in southern Baffin Island (see, also,text,
page
308).